RE: Farewell to UT's vectorlist

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Neil Bradley wrote:

> I do believe a mailing list is a democracy, not the personal whim of the
> single list maintainer. A mailing list should be set up to serve the
> majority of people that use it, and to be accomodating to make the most
> number of listmembers happy. What else is it there for?
>
> There is a happy medium, here. This argument is as old as the hills, and
> the solutions are simple. But it's a really, really sad day when we see
> Clay and Al leave since they are some of the best contributors to the
> list.

        So it's a Democracy -- i.e. "All pigs are equal." But when Clay
and Al leave it's a sad day (i.e. sadder than when John Doe leaves,) so
"Some pigs are more equal than others." Seems like you're talking about
an Animal Farm, not a Democracy, to me.

Joe
Received on Wed Jan 12 16:01:59 2000